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Welcome to the New Motley Moose!

After a 7 year run on the SoapBlox platform, the Motley Moose will be migrating to a new platform, WordPress. SoapBlox, the product of choice for the early blogtimes, when we chiseled our words on stone tablets and hurled them at each other, is being retired and the hosting firm that did such a great job all these years will be shutting down.

The transition will occur over the next month with an expected date of New Moose no later than June 30, 2015.

It is our hope that we can host the archive of previous Moose diaries and comments and will be working with the current hosting firm towards that goal.

We ask for your patience as we tweak the design to come up with something that works as a publishing platform for our authors and provides a pleasant environment for our subscribers.

Note: Not all user accounts will be migrated so stay tuned for information about how that transition will occur.

What you see here is the comment entry as delivered with the theme. Most don’t come with tools of any sort so any comment enhancement is a plug-in. I have a few to check out but my week blew up and I have only had dribs and drabs of time to play. I will vet some this weekend.

There do not seem to be any “comment preview” plug-ins any longer. I think they all relied on Java Script which is full of security holds. I will keep looking. Lots of people use third-party comments like via Facebook or Disqus. That means that your comments don’t stay part of your site. That is a problem (to me) because the comments are some of the best parts of a blog.

I found one. It is not elegant but it works on both desktop and mobile. The comment timer (which gives us x number of minutes to fix a typo in a comment) also gives us a spell checker and a bigger screen box for comments.

Did you get your login information? The Moose should have sent user information to you.

I am working on a document that will do a step by step introduction to posting here. But the easiest way to learn is to see one of your own diaries in the WordPress editor. If you want one moved, let me know and I will do that.

Featured Posts

I had intended to continue exploring unholy alliances, but a bout with flu-like symptoms for the past 48 hours has stripped me of the concentration needed. If headache, fever, and upset stomach are going to render me even more scattered than usual, I decided to leverage that into a positive. It may be a slightly…

My planned post for today went by the wayside; it’s hard to write anything remotely coherent when you’re obsessively checking hashtags on Twitter to see if your church has imploded yet. But the thought of a Tuesday without some history was unbearable [to me] too, so here’s a taste of what’s happened on this day.…

In parts 1 and 2, of this series I described the Nooksack River and how it’s three forks joined from the glaciers and water sheds surrounding the Mount Baker National Forest and wilderness area. The river that used to be prime spawning waters teemed with salmon that fed the local Indians for thousands of years. About 150…

At the beginning of February, when the earth appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and above us in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more daylight than there was on the Winter Solstice. Mid-January through mid-February is when the Great Horned Owls begin breeding and…

Was she a bear—or something more? She was dreaming in the cave, with the cubs snuggled against her broad chest. They dreamed together while outside the wind swept snow pellets through the trees and the deer hunted desperately for short grasses by the half-frozen creek. Her dreams were of warmth and plenty, of her twins…

She’s running. And I’m with her. Twitter announcement: I'm running for president. Let's do this together. Join us: https://t.co/9KwgFlgZHA pic.twitter.com/otf2ez7t1p — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 21, 2019 You need to login in order to like this post: click here